Dissent Mag

by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, January 4, 2007

Throughout history, “wars of religion” have served to obscure the economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of foreign lands. “Wars of religion” were invariably fought with a view to securing control over trading routes and natural resources.

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by Norman Solomon
excerpted from
1998 Censored News Stories
Project Censored

Over time, repetition can make certain false assumptions begin to seem natural. Every day, the media scenery provides us with views so familiar that we’re apt to see them as common sense. In the process, the mass media have propagated many enduring illusions. And perhaps none of them are more important than prevalent myths about the media industry itself.

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By Paul Craig Roberts

13/03/08 “ICH” — – March 12. Crude oil for April delivery hit $110 per barrel. The US dollar fell to a new low against the Euro. It now takes $1.55 to purchase one Euro.

These new highs against the dollar are the ongoing story of the collapse of the US dollar as world reserve currency and corresponding collapse of American power.

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by John Rhys-Burgess
www.opendemocracy.net, February 5, 2005

After the unutterable barbarity of the Nazi era, the question has often been asked as to how the people of a nation that had hitherto been such a pre-eminent contributor to western civilisation, could have been so deluded.

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